16th Latin American Art Festival and Congress

FROM OCTOBER 15 TO NOVEMBER 15, 2024
16th Latin American Art Festival and Congress towards deinstitutionalization
The Argentine network of art and mental health will organize the “16th Latin American Art Festival and Congress” towards deinstitutionalization, from October 15 to November 15, 2024. This year the Festival and Congress will have a different format, it will be held regionally throughout the country and other Latin American countries, due to the closure of the Chapadmalal Tourist Complex by the current national government and the lack of financial resources for the organization in a centralized place as it was historically done.
La Plata, 06 Oct (By InfoGEI).-This event, unique in the world due to its characteristics, brings together Artists who are Users of Monovalent Mental Health Hospitals, Mental Health Services of General Hospitals and official and community Mental Health Centers and artistic and community organizations and groups, who have Art as a practice and who are ideologically committed to the processes of deinstitutionalization and against the logic of the mental hospital, within the framework of the National Mental Health Law No. 26657/2010 and its Regulatory Decree No. 603/2013.

Works and shows of music, theater, dance, mime, puppets, plastic arts, literature, radio, journalism, photography, circus, music, combined arts and others will be presented. There will also be workshops, conferences, screenings and exhibitions, exchange tables in virtual mode.

In addition, we will participate in public spaces such as marches and squares with slogans such as: “Resisting is creating”, “When cruelty advances, mental health is organized”, “Without water there are no watercolors. No to the mine”, “Mental health, work and food sovereignty”, “Comprehensive health, accessibility and mental health”, “Mental health, diversity and gender identity”, “Without Human Rights, there is no mental health”.

Delegations from: Argentina: Santa Cruz, Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, CABA, Córdoba, Chaco, Tucumán, Salta; Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela.
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